Honorable Mention in St. Bernard Show

Today the St. Bernard Art Guild had a combination Christmas Party and Member’s Art Show. The judge was Julia Deal, a collector. There were four categories: Under Glass, Not Under Glass, Photography and 3-D. I entered three pieces in the Not Under Glass Category and received an Honorable Mention for one of them.

The bottom painting won the ribbon:

"Sunrise"


Christmas Art Show

VideoSift Charter Member

Not long ago I became a charter member on the VideoSift site. It is a video sharing community. Members submit videos and vote on each other’s submissions. Here is a link for my page on the site. I have customized the page to go with my avatar, one of my paintings.

dotdude.videosift.com

Here are the current top 15 videos from the site.

Chez Collage

Tonight I’ve added an AIM page devoted to my collage art. The default format is two columns instead of three. The page has many of the same items as the other ones.


Chez Collage

Teatro Wego!

Last Wednesday I was contacted about hanging art in the lobby of the Westwego Community Center on Sala Avenue. The Jefferson Performing Arts Society (JPAS) has a buffet in the building as part of its dinner theater and dinner before theatrical productions. Yesterday afternoon I hung fourteen pieces with similar visual themes. They will be on display through December 5, 2006. This is the first of many exhibits in the center. Click on the WCC link in the first sentence to view the art.

Renamed Blog

Today I changed my blog i see dots blog to match its address dot art. It is the first blog I ever created. After blogging for almost a year, I figured it a logical move. The address is what really counts. Also, I posted some new work on the blog.

Converting to Blogger in Beta

In the coming days you will notice changes on this blog and my other blogs. I am converting to the newest version of Blogger. It will take a while to convert everything. Some formatting was lost in the process and has to be redone.

There are more features available with this version of Blogger and even more promised. In the meantime I’m learning what does what still, so please bear with me. Hopefully, navigating will be easier.

Two More AIM Pages!

The blurb about my AIM Page, Splatter Studio, brought a lot of traffic to my page. Well, I decided to create two more AIM pages for my other types of art. Already my blogs have experienced more traffic.

Dance Floor

Rest and Motion


I also revamped one of my earlier AIM Pages. There is no need to have two devoted to my “dot art” when I do create other types of art.

Mo's Studio

Featured AIM Page

AIM Pages is featuring one of my pages today:

Splatters of Art
Weird. Wild. View the fantastic art of Throwsomepaint. He will try anything to make a beautiful painting come alive.

"o Series Completed

Last night I finished the eleven remaining paintings in my “o” series. Theses are all based on sights and experiences from my evacuation to Memphis. Today I posted the rest of them on my blog i see dots.

To see the other 15 pieces just backtrack through the archive links on the left side of the page.

Below is a slide show made from the paintings.

"Night Drive" Entered in SiftOff!

Today I entered my video “Night Clip” in the VideoSift SiftOff. This is a drive from the foot of Canal Street in New Orleans out to Metairie at night. About the 1:30 mark is a shot of the Superdome lit around the base. I added music that I assembled in GarageBand 2 software.

The voting takes place from September 1 – 30, 2006. Below I’ve listed a link for the contest and the site in general. If you want to vote, you will need to register with the site.

My other videos are posted on my blog called video journal.


VideoSift SiftOff

VideoSift

AIM Pages

Since I am allowed one AIM Page per screen name I decided to experiment with three more “profile pages.” For one I used the same content, but changed the background. For the other two I played with some of the other art images I’ve created and also changed the background. After all the dots are not the only kind of art I do.

As in other processes I generated ideas for the old page while working on the new page. I guess in a few months I’ll overhaul the pages.

The slide module gave me fits today as well as the custom list module. I hope this is temporary glitch. Over all I’m enjoying tinkering with the new pages.


Eye Play

Mo's Studio

Splatter Studio

Social Networking

There has been so much buzz about “social networking sites,” I decided I had to see what all the fuss was about. I tinkered with two different sites and the results of my efforts are linked below. One is from MySpace and the other is from AOL’s AIM.

MySpace
Mo

AIM Pages
Dot Spot

For all the hype about MySpace, I’m amused that people have to work around the interface to do anything creative. The site is not built for easy customization. I did a search for “how to’s.” Then I tried to change things on my page. By using code I lost some page formatting I liked. I would prefer controls that would just modify the colors that are already there. Argh.

AIM Pages is still in the testing stages, but I like the module concept. There are basic modules that come with a page. Then there are those that individuals create for the group. Some of the modules are generic enough that other people can do what they want in the module. Now if I can just think of a poll to add to mine.

Dot Central

Today I finished creating a web page that will centralize my show information and provide links to my blogs. Blogs are fine for journaling, but they are not as ideal for posting a schedule. Although the schedule will change, a lot of the other information will stay in one place - at least that is my plan.

The name of this new page is Dot Central.

3rd Place for Artist of the Year

At the West Bank Art Guild banquet, on May 25th, I received a certificate recognizing me for third place in the Artist of the Year competition.

At guild meetings member artists bring a piece to compete in an Artist of the Month Competition. During the break, members vote on the pieces entered. Names are covered so it is not obvious which artists made which piece. The top three vote getters are recognized. The first place artist has her/his winning piece displayed in the guild's gallery for a month.

The artists each receive points for participating and more points for placing. The accumulated scores are totaled at the end of the fiscal year.

At the February meeting, my piece placed third in competition. I did not attend every meeting in the year. But when I did, I brought a piece to compete.

The competition was created to encourage artist members to create new works.

This Just In . . .

It's occurred to me that I don't have blog devoted to news and announcements about my art activities. Well here it is.